Sunday, May 27, 2018

Stepping it up

I was originally going to title this post "Pieces of sky" ...


for the patches I made as a start to Moon Myth.

I even looked on Google to see if there were any songs titled Pieces of Sky. And there were (are), with lyrics and videos and everything ... but they also weren't (aren't) my creations, so the links got left on the cutting room floor. 

And then somehow along the way things got a little crazy ...


because an inadvertent blort of Soft Scrub on purple cloth led me to try tidying up the mess with a Q-tip which led to me realizing I could make clouds ...


on all those pieces of sky ...


which then had to be put into some kind of order ...


to make sense of them all ...


which wasn't easy, because ...


ALL of Deb Lacativa's threads are cosmic. But really, that's a good thing, because that means they all work ...


But then I realized some of the pieces weren't quite right. So I'm making more, stepping out of my comfort zone, trying to turn cloth into story in a new (to me) way.

Taking a risk ... 

it's how we learn to walk ...


how we learn to dance ...


how we learn to step it up a notch ...

Addendum:

About that learning thing ... you can't believe everything you read on the Internet. Like vinegar to neutralize bleach ... Not!

According to Deb Lacativa, who I trust absolutely, one way to neutralize bleach discharged cloth is to add 1 Tbs of Aquasafe to the rinse water (found in the pet aisle of the grocery store with aquarium supplies).

Always I am learning ...